Thesaurus / forlorn
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Each mini-chapter here begins with a question, followed by what feels like a personal answer written specifically to the forlorn rather than to the world — in a story, really, but one that’s relatable.
¡HOLA PAPI! WORKS AS MEMOIR, ADVICE COLUMNTERRI SCHLICHENMEYERJULY 8, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEThe roof is missing and the whole island appeared forlorn and desolate.
IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, RETURNING TO A CHANGED BUT RESILIENT ST. JOHNBOB DROGINJUNE 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe artist’s mother has a recurring role, and the show’s title comes from a forlorn message on an electronic sign outside the local middle school.
IN THE GALLERIES: EXPLORING HOW BODY LANGUAGE IS A VISUAL FORM OF COMMUNICATIONMARK JENKINSJUNE 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPatrick Hamlin is a forlorn East Coast writer who heads west and is quickly disillusioned by the seedy underbelly of Hollywood.
36 NEW BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS SUMMERCADY LANGMAY 25, 2021TIMEThe piece concludes with “Your Blanket,” a forlorn ballad played over watercolor illustrations that capture life’s simple elegance.
DIGITAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHT THE POWER OF ART WITHOUT AN AUDIENCETHOMAS FLOYDMAY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTProbably the biggest trade was Taylor Hall going to the Boston Bruins from the forlorn Buffalo Sabres.
SMALL SAMPLE SIZES BE DAMNED, LET’S TALK ABOUT BASEBALLSARAH SHACHATAPRIL 13, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT"I wasn't joking last night when I told Goodell that this was something of a forlorn hope," he said.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR"The high and mighty sent me out to lead a forlorn hope," Mac dryly responded.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRIt ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEThe same old battalions being called on again and again to do the forlorn hope sort of business.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONWORDS RELATED TO FORLORN
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
- alone
- bereft
- cast aside
- cast away
- derelict
- deserted
- desolate
- discarded
- dissipated
- dropped
- dumped
- eighty-sixed
- eliminated
- empty
- forgotten
- forlorn
- forsaken
- given up
- godforsaken
- jilted
- left
- left in the cold
- left in the lurch
- neglected
- outcast
- passed up
- pigeon-holed
- rejected
- relinquished
- shunned
- side-tracked
- sidelined
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacated
- afflicted
- agonized
- ailing
- anguished
- brokenhearted
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discontented
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- not happy
- on a downer
- pained
- pathetic
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- tragic
- troubled
- unhappy
- woebegone
- wounded
- wretched
- at end of one's rope
- back to the wall
- can't win
- dead duck
- despairing
- despondent
- downcast
- forlorn
- futile
- gone
- goner
- hard up
- in the soup
- in the toilet
- inconsolable
- irrecoverable
- irremediable
- irretrievable
- no-chance
- no-way
- no-win
- running out of time
- sad
- sunk
- up against it
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- wretched
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